Welcome to our English class
and our thoughts on NIGHT
We are reading and studying the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. We will be keeping an online portfolio of our activities and projects. Each of us has our own page. Please feel free to peruse. Night is Elie Wiesel's personal account of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The book describes Wiesel's first encounter with prejudice and details the persecution of a people and the loss of his family. Wiesel's experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald are detailed; his accounts of starvation and brutality are shattering—a vivid testimony to the consequences of evil. Throughout the book, Wiesel speaks of the struggle to survive, the fight to stay alive while retaining those qualities that make us human. While Wiesel lost his innocence and many of his beliefs, he never lost his sense of compassion nor his inherent sense of right.
This memoir gives us a vision and insight into one of the most atrocious events in the past century. Mr. Wiesel’s goal in writing this is to communicate with his readers what happened to him and millions of others, to help us “bear witness,” to help us share in theresponsibility of never allowing this to happen again.
Welcome to our English class
and our thoughts on NIGHT
We are reading and studying the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. We will be keeping an online portfolio of our activities and projects. Each of us has our own page. Please feel free to peruse.
Night is Elie Wiesel's personal account of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The book describes Wiesel's first encounter with prejudice and details the persecution of a people and the loss of his family. Wiesel's experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald are detailed; his accounts of starvation and brutality are shattering—a vivid testimony to the consequences of evil. Throughout the book, Wiesel speaks of the struggle to survive, the fight to stay alive while retaining those qualities that make us human. While Wiesel lost his innocence and many of his beliefs, he never lost his sense of compassion nor his inherent sense of right.
This memoir gives us a vision and insight into one of the most atrocious events in the past century. Mr. Wiesel’s goal in writing this is to communicate with his readers what happened to him and millions of others, to help us “bear witness,” to help us share in theresponsibility of never allowing this to happen again.